“—the recent mysterious deaths of a number of notable American scientists have been attributed to the actions of the Soviet Union. In a speech detailing these saddening losses, the United States’ Vice President, Georg—”
The girl standing before his desk pouted, her expression firm, hands on her hips.
“Yuusuke,” she said, drawing out his name, “doesn’t this thing play music?”
Across from the boy’s desk, Miki dropped her bag onto the hook on the side of her desk, and looked across at her classmates, Hidaka Yuusuke leaning back in his chair, the small, portable radio in his hands, a tinny faraway voice reporting news for locales so distant that Miki only had the vaguest impression of them from television programs and magazine articles.
“—not go unpunished, and we are working with a number
